The Beginning of Our Routine – In-depth Blog Post #4

This week’s In-Depth meeting started out the same as all our other meetings, with a brief warm-up and workout to get our muscles ready to dance. Afterwards, Kailey checked our ‘homework’ by having us show her what songs and dance moves we came up with for our final dance. I presented a song that I found called ‘Finale’ by AJR, and both Gyu Min and Kailey thought it would be a good choice for our final routine. I wanted to include body rolls and chest pops into the dance, and Gyu Min wanted to include footwork. After listening to the song over a few times, Kailey got an idea for what she wanted to do in terms of choreography, and we began forming the first few bars of dance for our final routine. The song sounds a little like old-fashioned theatre at the beginning, so the theme we are going for is 20s or 30s style, with a modern hip-hop twist. The process took a while, and we only got a small portion of the song done, but we perfected what we learned and promised to practice over the break.

So far,  the most difficult problems we have come across have been communicating outside of our In-Depth meetings, since we all have our own schedules and it can be hard to meet up more than once a week. Dancing is also a very physical learning process, and it can be hard to teach a two-person routine through words or not in person. However, the process is moving along smoothly in terms of making decisions and following instructions. Our dance routine is starting out well and we are practicing independently to make sure we can move forward at a good pace. Kailey is doing a good job checking in and making sure we are ok with how the process is going. Something we could do better is put out more suggestions for Kailey and take control of the routine ourselves, and even coming up with some choreography ourselves instead of having her teach us a whole routine. In our next meeting, I will make a list of suggestions we could add to our dance.

Here is a video of our routine so far:

Dance Routine